Due to the lack of access to basic necessities like food, clean water, and medication, thousands of pregnant Palestinian women are suffering in the most terrible circumstances amid Israel's brutal war on the Palestinian people in Gaza and the total collapse of the healthcare system in the area. Due to this, they are now at risk for bleeding, miscarriage, early birth, and infection with bacterial and viral illnesses. These risks could potentially result in many deaths, including that of the mother and her fetus.
"As per the accounts of medical professionals and teams working nonstop to save the wounds inflicted on the Gaza Strip's populace by the vicious aggression, the majority of pregnant women in the Gaza Strip are giving birth prematurely as a result of the anxiety, stress, and psychological trauma brought on by the Zionist occupation's missiles.
The dearth of essential medical supplies like medications, beds, equipment, and safe delivery services, combined with the overcrowding in the hospitals that haven't been destroyed yet, is what causes the misery. In pursuit of a safe place to give birth, women are compelled to walk great distances through streets full with wreckage and martyrs.
The international humanitarian law has various provisions for women, one of which is general protection. This provision states that women in times of conflict are entitled to the same guarantees as other protected persons, which include respect for their dignity, family rights, personalities, and religious beliefs and practices. Additionally, they are entitled to humane treatment at all times and protection from acts of violence or other threats.
The other speaks especially to ladies who are nursing or pregnant. As 'wounded persons,' pregnant women enjoy the same rights to'special protection and respect' as the sick and wounded under humanitarian law (Article 16 of the Geneva Convention IV and Article 8 of Protocol I).
Israel has changed without consideration for anything, shattering every system of human principles and international law. Women have died as a result of the war in ways that are unfathomable to us!